pulpit

C2 Topic:Register & Style

US /ˈpʊlpɪt/ UK /ˈpʊlpɪt/ See IPA manual

Freq #25817

Meanings

1

noun
A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.

Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.
2

noun
An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate.

He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.
3

noun
A bow platform for harpooning.

[Hooper:] Will you just please go to the end of the pulpit! [Brody:] What for? [Hooper:] I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale. [Brody:] Foreground, my ass!
4

noun
A plane's cockpit.

In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

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Synonyms

4 noun · a plane's cockpit. cockpit office

Word family

Derived forms jack-in-the-pulpitparson-in-the-pulpitpulpitalpulpitedpulpiteerpulpiterpulpitfulpulpiticalpulpitishpulpitismpulpitizepulpitless

Related forms ambo

Etymology

From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”). Doublet of pulpitum and polypus. Piecewise doublet of polypod.

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# pulpit

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈpʊlpɪt/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈpʊlpɪt/
**Frequency rank:** 25817

## Meanings
1. A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
2. An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate.
3. A bow platform for harpooning.
4. A plane's cockpit.

## Examples
- Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.
- He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.
- [Hooper:] Will you just please go to the end of the pulpit! [Brody:] What for? [Hooper:] I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale. [Brody:] Foreground, my ass!
- In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

## Derived Forms
- jack-in-the-pulpit
- parson-in-the-pulpit
- pulpital
- pulpited
- pulpiteer
- pulpiter
- pulpitful
- pulpitical
- pulpitish
- pulpitism
- pulpitize
- pulpitless

## Related Forms
- ambo

## Etymology
From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”). Doublet of pulpitum and polypus. Piecewise doublet of polypod.

## Topics
- Register & Style
- General Vocabulary

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